Auslogics File Recovery 3 is a simple to use professional application to recover deleted files or lost partitions. It also includes advanced privacy protection and backup tools too; it includes a secure file eraser and disk wiper.

We recently reviewed and hosted a giveaway of Auslogics File Recovery 3. Auslogics File Recovery 3 is a very good application that’s very simple to use. The step-by-step file recovery procedure is novice proof and allows anyone to easily recover files or partitions. The security features of the program are also very handy. Auslogics File Recovery 3 works with Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003/XP (32-bit & 64-bit).

We would like to first thank Auslogics for sponsoring the licenses. Now, it’s time for us to announce the names of the lucky winners! We used Random.org service to randomly choose the winner. Below are the names of the five lucky winners. Congratulations to all!

1. Thomas Schwerm
2. Abhishek Nair
3. San
4. Pankaj
5. briareoushex

Winners will receive an email from us shortly within 3 days. In the email, winners will find the license key of the program and instructions on how to install and activate the program. Thank you all for participating.

Do you know, we are running another very exclusive giveaway? For knowing more about it and to take part into the giveaway, click here!

Sygic: GPS Navigation for Android is a premium turn-by-turn navigation. We took the app for evaluation to see how it performs in our tests. You can read the full review of Sygic: GPS Navigation for Android here. It is a great navigation app for people who like or do a lot of traveling and can’t live without the GPS!

Sygic lists its premium app for free (actually a 7 day trial version) in the Android Market. The app is around 6 MB download and after installing it, users must download the maps. You don’t need to download all maps available through Sygic to your Android phone as it will take up precious space on their device. Using the Sygic Downloader, you have the choice to download each map. Sygic recommends using WiFi for downloading maps data as some maps are very big in size. After the 7-day trial expires, the app prompts the user to buy an activation key from the official webpage.

We would like to first thank Sygic for sponsoring the exclusive giveaway for our readers. Through this giveaway you can win an activation license of Sygic GPS Navigation worth 79.99 €. Using this license you will be able to activate Europe & America & Southeast Asia & Africa region.

The license will activate an awesome number of countries for you. The complete list of countries this license will unlock for you are as follows:

Africa:
Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe.

Europe:
Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican.

Middle East:
Egypt.

USA:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Other:
Argentina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Uruguay.

That’s a huge list, and includes almost all the major countries from the four continents! The complete list of compatible Android devices is here.

How to take part and get a chance to win a license of Sygic GPS Navigation For Android?

It’s very simple! To enter into this giveaway, fill up the giveaway form below:

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For earning extra points, you can further use the share buttons below. You can share daily for increasing your chances of winning. We will select the winners randomly. The giveaway is open to all visitors from anywhere in this world except where prohibited by law.

The giveaway ends on December 23, 2011, at noon GMT-8.0.

Best of luck!

In this digital age, when we keep all our important data dumped into electronic devices, it’s not very hard to lose the data either by human error or for any other reasons. Also, there is a threat of data being stolen when we thought that we got rid of it. Auslogics File Recovery 3 is a simple to use professional application to recover deleted files or lost partitions. It also includes advanced privacy protection and backup tools too; it includes a secure file eraser and disk wiper.

We completed our earlier Auslogics giveaway successfully, so we are here again with another Auslogics software giveaway! This time, the Auslogics File Recovery 3 is up for giveaway. We’ll be giving away 5 copies of Auslogics File Recovery 3 worth almost $250 in total this week. But, first, let’s see the features offered by this application.

File Recovery is a very straight forward and easy to use program. Inclusion of advanced privacy protection and backup tools further increases its value. Let’s take a quick walk-through of the program features before we talk about the giveaway.

As soon as you launch the program, you’ve the option to begin searching for your files in all available locations. The user-interface is very well laid out and even a novice user can get used to the functions in no time. In the left sidebar, all the detected hard disk drives are listed. In the right pane, you’ll be asked for the task you want to do with the program. In this case, the option to begin searching for deleted files.

There is an option to narrow down your search to certain file types only, if you know what exactly you’re looking for. Otherwise, you may search for all delete files on your drive. Further, you can narrow down to include only the files modified within or after a certain date. Next, the program asks you to enter any specific file name if you’re looking for just a particular file.

The program now provides you the option to do a deep scan, which is basically a thorough search and rescue method. After you click on the Search button, Auslogics File Recovery 3 begins its work. Depending on the size of your hard drive and the limits set by you, the search could take several minutes.

We tested the program on our virtual computer. Since, VM was newly deployed by us, the program returned results within seconds. On purpose, to test the effectiveness of the program, we detected mixed types of files that included some images, a word document, a PDF file and video file. Another feature of File Recover 3 is it generate a quick preview of certain media file types including PDF files. This feature is very handy in recovering the correct file.

Restoring files is also very easy using this program. You simply select the check box(es) next to the file(s), you want to recover and then click on the Recover Selected button. You will then receive a prompt to select the destination place, where you want to save the recovered files to.

Two important features of File Recovery 3 are recovering lost partitions and create a disk image. The lost partitions feature included in the program lets you recover accidentally deleted partitions from your system. File Recovery can find the information about deleted portions of the disk, so that you will be able to recover files from a lost partition. The program allows you to create a complete disk image of the logical drive along with all the information contained on the disk, including deleted files. This option allows you to recover files from the disk image later on while continuing working with the logical drive.

As mentioned earlier, File Recovery 3 comes bundled with two more features. Disk Wiper is one of them. The program lets you securely remove files. It permanently deletes files from the system so that no one can recover the files later. Since, some users may also want to securely wipe out their whole hard disk, File Recovery 3 lets you shutdown your PC automatically after the task completes.

File Shredder is another security feature provided by the program. File Shredder lets you securely delete specific files instead of wiping the hard disk. You simply drag and drop those files into the File Shredder, and click the Shred button. File Shredder starts securely deleting the files. So that, not only the program itself can recover the contents of the file. After the process completes, the program generates an HTML report just like its big brother Auslogics BoostSpeed 5 does.

Auslogics File Recovery 3 Giveaway

Auslogics File Recovery 3 is a very good application that’s very simple to use. The step-by-step file recovery procedure is novice proof and allows anyone to easily recover files or partitions. The security features of the program are also very handy. Auslogics File Recovery 3 works with Windows 7/2008/Vista/2003/XP (32-bit & 64-bit).

The program is available for $49.95 from Auslogics. You may download a trial from here to test the program.

We’re giving 5 copies worth almost $250 away this week so join the giveaway below!

Preference will be given to fans of our Facebook page/Google+ page and newsletter subscribers. So if you haven’t subscribed, do so now by clicking on this link.

In a nutshell, Like us to join our Facebook Page. If you are in Google+ than simply add us to your circle. If you’re already following us, you may skip this step.

Next step is to share about this giveaway using any of the social media buttons under this post.

And finally, to confirm that you are entering this giveaway, comment below.

Please use your real email address (if you are a subscriber, use your subscribed email address for getting preference) so that we can get in touch if you win.

That’s it! You’re done!

Well, not everyone are into social networks like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter.

If you are among these, you’re still eligible to join the giveaway.

You have to be either a verified email subscriber of this website or if you have a blog or website, simply publish a post on your blog or website along with a link to this giveaway and a short description. Then come back here and in the comments, tell us where you’ve published it.

This giveaway begins now and ends on next Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 22:00 (PST).

5 winners will be selected randomly and they will be contacted via email.

Have fun and don’t forget to share about this giveaway with your friends. After all sharing is caring.

TuneUp Utilities 2012 is one of the best Windows system tweaking and optimization program. Recently, we did a review of TuneUp Utilities 2012 along with a giveaway, and we thank TuneUp Corporation for sponsoring the licenses. We had 5 licenses up for the giveaway and received good number of responses.

So, here we are, announcing the names of the lucky 5 winners of the TuneUp Utilities 2012 giveaway selected randomly:

• Azmi
• pachomora
• Jon
• Jamil
• Robert

Congratulations to all the lucky winners! They will receive their free licenses shortly. And to those who participated in this giveaway but failed to win, do remember, you may be the winner next time so just wait for our next giveaway.

Note: Some entries were invalidated either because they didn’t subscribe or they didn’t confirm their subscriptions, which was one of our rules for participating in the giveaway. In case of any dispute about the giveaway, our decision will be considered final.

If you are one of the winner of this giveaway, you’ll be receiving an email containing your free license code of TuneUp Utilities 2012 in the next few days. If for some reason you can’t find the email in your inbox please check your spam/junk folder. If you still can’t find the email even after 7 days, please send us an email using the contact page. We’ll resolve your problem soon.

Thank you all for participating and stay tuned for the next giveaway!

TuneUp Utilities 2012 is the latest version of one of the most popular Windows system optimization and tweaking program. Every year it is getting perfected with new unique features added to the program. TuneUp Utilities 2012 features all the functions that were present in the earlier version, viz, TuneUp Utilities 2011 (which we have reviewed earlier). Along with all those features, two notable features added to the latest version are TuneUp Economy Mode and TuneUp Program Deactivator.

TuneUp Economy Mode will extend the battery life of notebook, netbook and tablet computers by shutting off processes and hardware components that aren’t required or in use. TuneUp Economy Mode is the new introduced feature of 2012 while TuneUp Program Deactivator, introduced in 2011 version, has gone through major overhauling in 2012 edition. Both TuneUp Economy Mode and TuneUp Program Deactivator, when used in combination can boost the energy efficiency of Windows 7 systems by up to 30 percent, when compared with the Windows 7 built-in energy savings mode.

With today’s increasing computing power, multi-core processors and gigabytes of RAM, many users will argue if they need a system optimization program? But, many users will agree with us that even with so much of computation power in hand, Windows tends to become sluggish after usage. Microsoft promises to change this scenario with its upcoming Windows 8 operating system but until than we are left with trusted system optimization utilities like TuneUp Utilities.

Since we have already reviewed TuneUp Utilities 2011 and most of the tools, although improved, have remained same in TuneUp Utilities 2012, in this review we will concentrate only on the most notable two features (discussed above). You can go through the thorough review of TuneUp Utilities 2011 here to know in-depth about what it offers.

At the end of this review (after break), you will find a giveaway contest, through which you can win a free license of TuneUp Utilities 2012 worth $49.95. 5 licenses are up for the giveaway, so the total licenses worth approx $250 (exactly $249.75). More on that later.

A quick walk-through…

TuneUp Utilities 2012 User Interface

The installation was very straight forward, after which, TuneUp Utilities immediately launched its 1-Click Maintenance tool. The tool quickly checks for Windows Registry errors, broken shortcuts, temporary files (but Recycle Bin), Windows startup and shutdown problems, disk fragmentation and so on. A report of everything found, is provided after the analysis and you can then fix the issues with a single click.

As we have seen earlier with 2011, the tools are divided into five tabs:

• Status & recommendations: shows you an overview of the current condition of your system and gives you recommendations on how you can improve the system’s health.
• Optimize system: disable or uninstall unwanted programs and clean up your system and your data.
• Gain disk space: you can delete unnecessary data systematically from your system.
• Fix problems: you will find simple solutions for any problems that might occur.
• Customize Windows: you can configure how your Windows should look and function, thereby personalizing your computer.

For advance users or for quickly finding a tool, you can click on “Overview of all functions” option. This option gives you a list of all functions that TuneUp Utilities offers. If you click on the wrench icon next to a tool, it opens the settings for that tool.

TuneUp Program Deactivator

Many Windows programs like Microsoft Office adds services, startup programs and other tasks which slows down the system and hampers performance, even though we don’t need those services or programs to start with Windows. If uninstalling the program is not an option than the revamped version of Program Deactivator might be able to help you.

Simply launch Program Deactivator and a list of installed programs is displayed along with its performance impact on your PC. We have already seen earlier in TuneUp Utilities 2011, that it really works and improves performance of the system.

What’s new in TuneUp Utilities 2012 edition of Program Deactivator is the TuneUp Programs-on-Demand Technology, in layman terms the “Automatic” function. Simply keep the function on, and if you launch a “deactivated” program then TuneUp Utilities 2012 will automatically disable this again once you’ve closed it down. Thus it keeps your system in top performance always.

Even though your mileage may vary when using this tool. But if your system is packed up with programs (like ours), TuneUp Program Deactivator will surely help you gain performance.

TuneUp Economy Mode

Windows 7 is optimized to conserve power but it is still not fully optimized. As the number of background process, service or scheduled task increases, the impact on the power can also be felt. This prevents devices from entering low-power (or idle) modes. TuneUp Economy Mode prevents PC hardware components from delivering too much power when it’s not really needed. Once TuneUp Economy Mode is active, all non-essential background processes and services are disabled to reduce power usage. The settings are very easy to configure. In our tests, we have seen an increase in battery life.

Conclusion

In our tests on a laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) on Core i5, 4GB RAM, 640GB HDD, boot time fell by around 10 percent, RAM usage fell from 40 percent to 35 percent. Overall, system performance was improved and we actually found our applications launching faster.

You can test TuneUp Utilities 2012 for yourself and see the system performance improvements yourself. The software is available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit editions) and can be downloaded from TuneUp Utilities official website for free.

TuneUp Utilities 2012 Giveaway

Update: Giveaway is over. Winners are announced here.

We will like to first thank TuneUp Corporation for sponsoring the giveaway. We have 5 licenses of TuneUp Utilities 2012 to give away to our readers for free.

How to take part in the TuneUp Utilities 2012 giveaway?

Subscribe to My Technology Guide Email Updates. You can subscribe us using following link: Subscribe to My Technology Guide

Note: For new subscribers, don’t forget to click on the confirmation email sent to you by FeedBurner to start our email subscription. If we find that your subscription is incomplete than your entry for the giveaway will not be considered.

Now, simply share about this giveaway on any social networking site of your choice and post its status URL here in the comments (for verification). You may also share this offer on your blog or post about the giveaway in a forum and post the URL here. The more you share, the more are your chances of winning. Make sure to use the same email address registered for My Technology Guide email newsletter, otherwise you won’t be eligible for the giveaway.

For increasing your chances further, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or FriendFeed.

The 5 lucky winners will be announced by us after 7 days.

Disclaimer: We received a license key for reviewing the application but we opted to test it in free trial mode. Since most users will test the software in trial mode before buying. The trial program is fully functional and can be tested for 15 days.

iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac lets you download and convert videos (HD videos supported) from YouTube, Facebook, TNT, BREAK, Google Video, and many other video-sharing sites from Safari web browser. After download, you can convert videos to use with iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP and mobile phones; or to any video and audio format of your choice.

iSkysoft iTube Studio supports the following websites: YouTube, Facebook, TNT, Bing video, Yahoo video, Google video, BREAK, TwitVid, TeacherTube, RuTube, Photobucket, VEVO, Funnyordie, Expotv, Engagemedia, Archive, CNN, Metacafe (Hulu video excluded) etc.

The software lets you convert the downloaded videos into formats compatible with Apple Devices, Apple Software, Game Console, Portable Video Players, HD Movie, Mobile Phone, Video Formats, Audio Formats.

How To Download Videos from YouTube or Other Video-Sharing Sites?

After downloading the application, launch iTube Studio for Mac installer and a wizard will guide you through the setup process. iTube Studio for Mac will automatically launch when installation finished.

Launch Safari web browser and visit YouTube.com. The Download button will show up at the top left corner of the video when detected on the webpage. iTube Studio offers three options for you to download videos:

• Click the button and let the YouTube download wizard to do the thing for you.
• Drag the URL to the iTube Studio for Mac dock icon to start downloading.
• Go to Download menu and choose Enter a URL, then click OK.

How To Get iTube Studio for Mac License?

iSkysoft Studio the developers of iTube Studio for Mac has launched a giveaway promotion. Through this giveaway, you will be able to get a free license of iTube Studio, the YouTube Downloader Mac.

To receive the license, simply visit the promotion page at: http://www.iskysoft.com/itube-studio-mac/giveaway.html

Fill up the request form and click on Get Key Code button.

You will receive the license code in your email address. Use the license code to register the product.

EASEUS Partition Master is a comprehensive Windows application for easily managing hard disk partitions. Its convenient user-interface simplifies your tasks by offering many functions to manage your partitions. The Professional Edition can let you enjoy all the powerful basic and advanced partition functions.

Windows default partition manager is very basic and doesn’t offer advanced partition options. EaseUS Partition Master with Partition Recovery Wizard integrated is a comprehensive toolkit for computer users. It covers a full range of features including Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and disk & partition copy and more.

EaseUS Partition Master also allows users to create bootable disk. Using this bootable disk, you can manage hard disk partitions when the Operating System crashes. You can also resize the primary drive to reinstall other Operating Systems or even manage partitions on a computer without Operating System.

We received a trial version of EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition for review. It came along with Linux bootable disk option.

Key Advantages of EaseUS Partition Master:

• It is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and the easiest and most convenient hard disk partition manager toolkit including Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Partition Recovery Wizard.
• Its built-in Linux-based bootable disk enable you manage hard disk partitions when Operating System inaccessible.
• Copy Wizard to copy partition or migrate entire hard disk to another without Windows reinstallation.
• Partition Recovery Wizard to recover deleted or lost partitions.
• Stable partition management which will protect your data.

Interface and Usability

EaseUS Partition Manager comes enriched with a hefty set of functions. The Operations area will be handy when you want to do some disk management tasks. If you are are not happy with Windows built-in backup feature; you can use the wizard and do backup and recovery tasks. This can be accomplished by using the Copy disk wizard, Copy partition wizard and Partition recovery wizard. Using the software it’s very easy to create the Linux bootable disks. Using these disks, you can rebuild MBR and can also create/delete/format partitions before installing OS. You can make bootable USB disk, CD/DVD and can export ISO image as well. The program lets you resize other NTFS partitions excluding NTFS system partition without reboot. Before that you must make sure all applications in the partition are closed.

The Disk Copy is designed to copy your entire disk to a new hard drive. There was a time when upgrading to a new hard drive meant hours of downloading your data, applications, and operating systems to disks; then more hours of reinstalling everything to the new hard drive. With Disk and Partition Copy Wizard, you can quickly and easily create an exact copy of your hard disk, including the operating system, applications, preferences, settings, and data. Partition Copy is designed to back up your partitions before the partition operations applied to the hard disk to prevent any data lost from program error or some other accidental incidents. Disk and Partition Copy Wizard can also copy dynamic volume safely to basic disk and resize it indirectly.

Partition Recovery Wizard included into EaseUS Partition Master completely protects your partition, allowing you to recover deleted or lost partitions due to a hardware or software failure. Together with Partition Manager, Copy Wizard and other useful features, you can do mostly anything you want on hard disk with EaseUS Partition Master. You must have this Partition Recovery Wizard if you care for safety of your partition and wish to be fully armed and ready for any personal, hardware or software failure, virus attack, or hacker’s intrusive destruction partition loss. You can recover the deleted or lost partition with Partition Recovery Wizard – a reliable partition recovery tool.

Other Features

• Resize dynamic volume – resize dynamic volume without data loss.
• Support command line – for easier disk management and run a batch file with no need for program running.
• Repair RAID-5 volume – repair RAID-5 by reconstructing the data of the failed member on another disk.
• Convert FAT partition to NTFS – to use the advantages of NTFS.
• Wipe data on free space – to offer a safer space for the new data.
• Disk surface test – check or find bad sectors.
• Convert primary to logical and vice versa – convert a primary volume to logical to create a fifth volume on a disk with 4 existed primary volumes.
• Defragmentation – speed up your computer.

Conclusion

EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition with built-in Linux bootable disk license retails at $19.95. It is definitely a good software which provides great value. If you want a comprehensive solution then we must recommend going for EASEUS Partition Master with WinPE bootable disk.

Download EaseUS Partition Master

For those who may have missed this giveaway, you all can get any EASEUS product at 30% discount. Simply visit EaseUS store at http://www.easeus.com/buynow.htm, select the product you want to buy and use the coupon code: CHEN-9SCN-GIVE

EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition with built-in Linux bootable disk License Giveaway [Expired]

Thanks to EASEUS for sponsoring 10 EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition with built-in Linux bootable disk licenses. Being a reader of My Technology Guide, you stand a chance to win one license. All you have to do is become a subscriber and comment below. We’ll announce the winners in one week from the date of publishing this contest. For increasing your chances, you can like us, follow us and share the word about the campaign using the share buttons below.

Update: Winners are announced here.

SpringPublisher Pro is the premium upgrade to SpringPublisher Free desktop publisher software. The freeware counterpart which is light on system can be converted to the pro version without burning a big hole in your pocket (it costs only $23.95). Thanks to SpringPublisher Team, we’re giving away 5 copies of SpringPublisher Pro this week.

The pro version unlocks the locked functions of the Free version. Earlier, we have already seen how SpringPublisher free version works. If you have not read that article, you can read the article titled: “SpringPublisher: Design & Print Flyers, Business Cards, Letterheads” here.

The free version lets you design and take print out in low to medium quality (96 and 180 dpi, respectively) of your creatives. The professional version, which we’re giving away here, unlocks the locked functions and will allow you to print in high quality output at 350 dpi. You will also get 100 download credits to grab templates from SpringPublisher online store.

Since we have already tested the freeware, we will not go through extensive details about the program again. We are handing over the license keys to the first 5 persons who comments below.

NOTE: You just need to subscribe us through email. Please use your real email address (used for subscription) so that we can get in touch if you win.

This giveaway begins now and ends after one week (ample of time for you to test the program!).

Spread the word to your friends and have fun!

Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.1 is a program which really can revitalize your system. The program uses trusted and tested useful system optimization techniques and technologies to take care of your PCs performance. And, you don’t need to have a PhD in Windows or be an expert to use this program. It comes with many integrated utilities which lets you easily tweak almost every area of your computer system.

We reviewed it and Auslogics BoostSpeed performed well in all our tests. It recovered around 800 MB of disk space compared to 100 MB of Windows inbuilt Disk Cleaner. It also optimized our system with effective and easy to apply optimization. Our system performs faster now. You can read the full review of Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.1 here.

We would like to thank Auslogics Software Pty Ltd for sponsoring 5 license keys of Auslogics BoostSpeed 5.1 Pro each worth $49.95 exclusively for My Technology Guide readers. If you are a software developer and want to host a giveaway with us, contact us.

After going through all the comments, we have chosen the best 5 comments (reviews) submitted by our readers. The 5 winners of the professional license are:

• Azmi
• vince
• Mounir
• pss0612
• ha14

Congratulations to all the winners! Winners will receive an email from us within 5 days. If you cannot find our email in your inbox, please see your junk/spam folder. If you still cannot find our email after 24 hours of this post going live, please contact us.

Thank you all for participating and sharing your views about the software. We are soon going to host another great giveaway. If you are not a winner this time, who knows, you may become a winner in our next upcoming giveaway. Use the subscription/follow options below to know first.

Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 will help you boot into Windows when you can’t due to the dreaded Blue/Black Screen of Death.

Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 integrates the latest Microsoft WinPE technology to boot into Windows. Using the application, you can easily create a bootable LiveBoot CD or LiveBoot USB drive. Upon booting into Windows using it allows you to fix your computer boot up problem, rescue data, backup and restore file or system, clone and deep wipe disk, manage disk, etc. The LiveBoot CD/USB created by the application features over 40+ utility functions in total.

LiveBoot 2012 Features

• Windows Recovery – Provide a complete solution set for all Windows crash and booting problems including booting failure, virus affection, blue/black screen, and more.
• Data Recovery – Rescue any data from your internal/removal hard disk or partitions no matter deleted, formatted, or whole disk corrupted, including documents, archives, emails, photos, videos, and audio files.
• Disk Management – Complete disk management solutions including partition management, disk/partition cloning, disk/partition wipe, and more.
• Password & Key Finder – Reset Windows password when you forget the login password and find Windows or Office product key when you want to reinstall them.

Download the installer and install LiveBoot 2012 in your system.

After launching it for the first time, it will ask you to create a LiveBoot CD/USB.

The application itself comes with an extensive help which will guide you through the rest of the process.

After creating the LiveBoot CD/USB boot up your computer using it and use the utilities to recover your computer.

How to get a free license of Wondershare LiveBoot 2012?

Wondershare is running a giveaway promotion of LiveBoot 2012 for My Technology Guide readers. Through this giveaway, you can get yourself a free license of Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 which normally retails for $59.95.

Visit the promotion URL here and fill up the form.

You will receive your free license in your email address. The promotion will be live until August 12, 3 PM (GMT+8).

We hosted two of the most anticipated giveaway for our readers. The first one, Windows 7 Ultimate License: Be Genuine giveaway, with WinSpark Networks collaboration and the second one, Online Microsoft Office Training by Webucator giveaway. Today, we will announce the winner of both the giveaways through this post.

Let us first announce the lucky winner of Windows 7 Ultimate license. But before announcing the name of the lucky reader, we would like to first thank everyone who participated in this giveaway. Everyone did a great job by sharing about this giveaway through various channels to their friends and loved ones. We received 100+ entries and everyone participated with great enthusiasm.

Believe us, we really had tough job in collecting the shares, verifying the entries and awarding the points. But we loved the job and we do liked everyone’s answer to the question “Which Windows 7 feature you loved the most?”

We learned a lot through this event and we will make our future events much more easy for everyone to participate. Without taking much more time, we would like to tell everyone that the person whom we have chosen the winner got 1220 points in total, closely followed by one participant who have received 1200 points in total.

Below is the name of the winner of our Windows 7 Ultimate License: Be Genuine Giveaway.

• elda taluta

Congratulations to the lucky winner of the license. The winner has to respond to our email (which will be sent within 24 hours of this announcement) within two weeks, failing which the next person will be awarded the license. We would like to thank again our partner WinSpark Networks, for sponsoring this giveaway.

Now, coming to our next giveaway “Online Microsoft Office Training by Webucator.”

Participating in this giveaway was made very simple for everyone. Out of the entries, we randomly chosen the winner of this giveaway. The winner will receive a free seat in a Microsoft Office instructor-led online class by Webucator worth $390. The class will run from 10am-5pm Eastern Time.

Below is the name of the winner of our Online Microsoft Office Training by Webucator giveaway.

• Steven Dubbs

Congratulations to the lucky winner. We will send you further instructions through email soon.

Thank you all for making these two events a grant success. Some other exclusive giveaways are on its way, so if you are not a winner this time, hope for the best in our next giveaway.

Avast Software is running an online promotion on it’s Germany website. Through this promo, you can get yourself a free license of Avast Internet Security 6 valid for one year till April, 2012.

Unlike Kaspersky’s promotions, like the Chinese promotions (now expired) which were mostly limited to the language version of the product, where it is running. The license of Avast, which you will receive from this promotion works for English versions too, even though it is for Germane users.

How To Get Avast Internet Security License Through The Promo?

First, visit the promotion website: http://www.my-avast.de/AVAST-Aktion-com-so-gehts

Enter your details in the text boxes as you can see below:

After filling up the details, click on the Absenden button. Now, check your email, you should see an email from “Globell Marketing” with the subject “Registrierung Avast Internet Security 6.” In that email, check for a link to the license file (license-com-so-gehts.zip), download it. Check your spam folder, if you cannot find the email.

Download Avast Internet Security 6 Trial version form Avast website. Install the security suite and click on the License com! so geht´s.avastlic (extract it from the license archive file you have downloaded, you can also use Google Docs viewer to extract the file online). A click on the license file registers the program. You can alternatively open Avast Internet Security and load the license file using the Registration Options. We covered Avast 6, when it launched. You can read more about the product in that article.

About Avast Internet Security 6 from the Avast official website:

avast! Internet Security provides complete antivirus, anti-spyware, antispam, and firewall protection, complemented now by new avast! SafeZone technology. It creates an isolated virtual desktop, invisible to any possible attacker, where you can do your online shopping and banking securely.

Features

• Continuous protection against viruses and spyware.
• Ensures all mails sent and received are clean. Keeps your mailbox free from spam. Keeps you protected from “chat” infections.
• Stops attacks from hijacked websites. Lets you safely browse suspicious websites or run unknown applications.
• Blocks hacker attacks to protect your identity.
• Allows safe and uninterrupted gaming.

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My Technology Guide readers will love this giveaway as they have to do nothing to win this! Thanks to LotSoft, the developers of the application, we were able to get unlimited licenses for the BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate. The application is a DVD clone software which can also backup and rip DVD’s. We will talk about the giveaway at the end of this article, but first, lets see how good is BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate.

Now, coming to the user interface, when you start the application, you will notice big buttons to do a full DVD disc backup or a DVD title backup at the top. When you click on those buttons, the program automatically changes the options that are available for the task. After inserting a DVD, it fills up information about the DVD, including cover art, name, studio, director and performers automatically.

The program supports all known copy protections like CSS, CPRM, CPPM, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, SONY ARccOS, Rip-Guard, Disney X-DRM protection etc. It comes with GPU acceleration which can greatly improve the decryption and copying speed. Most of the time you simply have to click on the big Run button and the program will take care of everything.

The unique Sector to Sector copying and GPU accelerating technologies helps speed up tasks such as DVD Cloning, Data backup, ISO burning etc. Though the program will work depends largely on the speed of the DVD drive, the processor, computer memory available and if the video card can be used for GPU acceleration or not.

Features of BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate :

1. Can create perfect DVD Backups of Raw Content.
2. Removes all known DVD copy protections, such as CSS, CPRM, CPPM, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, SONY ARccOS, Rip-Guard, Disney X-DRM protection, etc.
3. Clone Entire DVD to Blank DVD: Lets you backup full content of DVD-5 or DVD-9 movies as a DVD folder or ISO image on your PC hard drive or USB drive.
4. Lets you backup the “Main Movie” in the DVD or only certain chapters from the DVD.
5. You can burn ISO file or DVD folder to a blank DVD or re-writable DVD.
6. Built-in virtual DVD drive allows you to load and unload any ISO image file for processing.
7. Compatible with Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit), Vista (32 & 64 bit) and Windows XP

BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate is very easy to use and requires very little user interventions. The options available for the tasks are easy to understand and the help file is very extensive. It covers all the functions of the program along with How-To’s.

Giveaway

We have an unlimited amount DVD Clone Ultimate licenses. To win this giveaway, you don’t have to do anything, you don’t need to subscribe us (even though we will like it if you do as you will receive our updates in your email!) or do any other stuffs.

Simply, download the program from the developer website, and enter the license code BU-TUUPTTZU-HBRSRO after installation to activate it. But do remember, you have to register using the license code on or before August 7.

NovaBACKUP Professional is a complete system backup and restore application for Windows users. Recently, we did a quick review of NovaBACKUP 12 Professional and found it easy to use for everyone. You can read our full review by clicking on the link below:

NovaBackup 12 Professional Review

NovaBACKUP 12 Professional offers custom backup options along with wizards catering both novice and advanced users. The user interface itself is split into two vies; Simple View and Advanced View. The Simple View has all the tools meant for novice users while the Advanced View has features for the advanced users. We found that the basic view hides some functions which are available only in advanced view. Some functions which are available in basic view are hidden in the advanced view.

We would like to thank NovaStor, the developers of NovaBackup, for sponsoring this giveaway. If you are a software developer and want to partner with us for hosting this kind of event, you can contact us.

We have successfully completed the giveaway of three licenses of NovaBACKUP 12 Professional each worth $49.95. Today is the time to declare the names of the three lucky subscribers of My Technology Guide, who have each won a license of the professional backup solution.

We did a quick validation of the entries and used “Random Sequence Generator” service (in secure HTTPS mode) to do the draw.

Below is the result of the draw and the first three persons in the list are the lucky winners.

1. Jon
2. Grr
3. Arie Widodo

Congratulations to all the winners! Winners will receive an email from us within 24 hours. If you cannot find our email in your inbox, please see your junk/spam folder. If you still cannot find our email after 24 hours of this post going live, please contact us at .

We would like to thank everyone who participated in this giveaway and contributed to make it a success.

P.S. To the winners, according to the rules of this giveaway, you have to respond to our email within 7 days, failing which, the next eligible person in our list becomes the winner.

NovaBACKUP Professional is a powerful backup and restore solution for Windows users. We took the latest version, NovaBACKUP 12 Professional for a quick review and found it easy to use for both novice and advanced users. You can read our review by clicking on the link below:

NovaBackup 12 Professional Review

Backing up our digital data is very important. Sadly, most of us don’t understand the value of a good backup until we face a disaster ourself. Here comes a simple application with advanced features for users, handling the backup task automatically with minimal user intervention.

Normally, NovaBACKUP 12 Professional retails at $49.95 for each single user license. But, if you are our readers, here’s a great chance for you all. Thanks to NovaStor, the developers of NovaBACKUP, for sponsoring three full version NovaBACKUP 12 Professional license.

How to win a genuine Free License key of NovaBACKUP 12 Professional?

So, what you have to do, to become eligible for the giveaway and be one of the three lucky winner? Its simple.

All you have to do is be our verified email subscriber and comment below. Read the instructions below on how to be our verified subscriber.

1. Click on the link below to subscribe.
   Subscribe for free My Technology Guide email updates (delivered via Google FeedBurner)
2. Provide your email address and fill up the CAPTCHA code, click on the Complete Subscription Request button.
3. You will receive an email address asking you to click on a verification link to activate our email subscription.
4. Click on that link and you are a verified subscriber.
5. Use that verified email address and your original name and comment below telling us how much important data backup is for you.

Already verified subscribers don’t have to subscribe again. They have to simply comment below telling us how much important data backup is for them.

You can help us spread the message about the giveaway by using any of the social channels that you are in like Twitter, Facebook, etc. You can take the help of the Share buttons present at the end of this article.

Giveaway Terms and Conditions are as follows:

1. No purchase necessary.
2. This contest is open worldwide.
3. Kindly use your genuine email id (used to subscribe to our email subscription) and full name for participating in this giveaway.
4. All entries must be made using the comment form on this giveaway page.
5. No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost, or which are not received for any technical reason.
6. The closing date for the giveaway is 2^nd July, 2011 23:59 hours (Pacific Time).
7. If you win, we will notify you by e-mail.
8. If we do not get a response to the email within seven days, the prize will be offered to a runner-up.
9. The prize is not exchangeable for cash or any other prize.
10. If, for any reason, an advertised prize is not available, we reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
11. Incorrectly completed entries will be disqualified. An entry which doesn’t follow the terms and conditions and our comments policy will be disqualified.
12. All federal, state, local, and other taxes on items won are the sole responsibility of the applicable winner.
13. Void where prohibited by law.
14. By entering, entrants certify that they meet all eligibility requirements.
15. By entering, winners also agree to all Terms and Conditions of MyTechGuide.org.
16. My Technology Guide holds the complete rights to change the Terms and Conditions without prior notice.
17. Our decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered.

If you are new here, you can also take part in our other active awesome exclusive giveaways:

• Online Microsoft Office Training by Webucator: Exclusive Giveaway
• Win a Windows 7 Ultimate License and Be Genuine [Exclusive Giveaway]

P.S. Follow us on Twitter/Like our Facebook Page, if you don’t want to miss all the awesomeness that we offer to our loyal beloved readers!

Best of luck everybody!

Wondershare MobileGo is a smart Android Manager to manage your Android phone. With this application, you can easily manage your phone from your computer conveniently and effectively. The application is an one-stop application for everything that you need for your device.

The manager enables you to easily transfer all your contacts from your Symbian device, import your contacts from Microsoft Outlook, convert movies to formats that your phone can play, easily import or export contacts, manage your SMS, music, photo, or movie, backup and restore your phone data, and do other management tasks between your computer and phone. Using the app is very easy. With its well laid-out user interface, finding any function and using is very easy. You can find a simple guide on how to use this application here.

The application supports a range of Android phones running 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 operating system. It supports phones manufactured by Google, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Dell, ZTE, HUAWEI and Acer.

Wondershare MobileGo Features

• Easily transfer your Contacts from Symbian phones.
• Import your Contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, or vCard.
• Convert movies or music with the formats that Android phone can play.
• Backup and restore your Contacts, SMS, Applications with 1 click.

How to get a free license of Wondershare MobileGo?

Wondershare Software Co. Ltd., the software company behind Wondershare MobileGo has partnered with us to offer our readers with unlimited number of licenses until 20th June, 2011 21 June, 2011 (extended). So, everyone is a winner in this giveaway!

1. To get this free license all you have to do is visit the promotion page created for our readers.
2. Provide your name, email address (where they will send you the license key), and a simple comment about the product.
3. Click on the big Get It Now button and within 30 seconds, you will receive your free Wondershare MobileGo license.
4. Download the installer file from Wondershare MobileGo homepage and install it.
5. Use the license code that you received to activate the app.

Liked this giveaway? Don’t forget to take part in our other active giveaways!

My Technology Guide has partnered with Webucator, a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, to offer an exclusive opportunity to readers. Webucator provides Office training and customized, instructor-led training courses across various technologies.

Through this giveaway the winning person will receive a free seat in a Microsoft Office instructor-led online class! These one and two-day classes are very hands on, and they are taught by a live instructor in an online, interactive classroom. This prize is valued up to $390.00.

How to Win Webucator Office Training Class?

From now untill Friday, 15 July 2011, readers can enter this giveaway for a chance to attend any one Microsoft Office instructor-led online class. To enter this giveaway, all you have to do is:

Subscribe for our email updates and don’t forget to confirm the subscription (served via Google FeedBurner).

For verification of your entry, comment below using the same email address used for subscription.

Readers active on social networks are encouraged to tweet about this competition on Twitter or share about this giveaway on Facebook or any other social network. (Use the share buttons at the end of this article.)

Giveaway Terms

• No purchase necessary. Must be 18 years old to win. Odds of winning dependent upon the number of entries. One winner will be selected randomly.
• Certificate is valid for one person to win one (1) free Microsoft Office class listed on this special offer schedule.
• Winners will have a selection of a number of class dates.
• Class will be presented in a live online format in a WebEx classroom with a live trainer.
• Employees, contractors, and immediate families of Webucator, Inc. and My Technology Guide are not eligible to take part.
• All federal, state, and other taxes arising from this contest, if applicable, are the winner’s responsibility and will not be paid by Webucator, Inc, nor My Technology Guide (www.mytechguide.org).
• Winner will be announced on Saturday, 16 July, 2011.
• The winner will have 24 hours to accept his/her prize. If not, My Technology Guide, reserves the right to award the prize to another entrant.

Two years back on June 14th, 2009, we posted our very first welcome message here. We officially started our journey as a technology website, with our commitment to bring the most benefits for our readers, subscribers, fans, followers, sponsors and everyone involved on July 1st, 2009.

Since, then almost two years have passed and we have enjoyed every single moment of being with you all. As we are getting ready to start another new term of My Technology Guide, we bring to you the most anticipated giveaway of all times in the history of My Technology Guide. And on this auspicious time, what more can we think of giving away except a genuine license of Windows 7 Ultimate to one of our most valued and loyal reader.

With WinSpark Networks collaboration, we bring to you all, Windows 7 Ultimate License and Be Genuine Giveaway. Through this giveaway, you can win yourself a genuine license of Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

Before we talk about the rules for entering this giveaway, let us give a brief description of WinSpark. The website is exclusively devoted to tech thoughts on various Microsoft technology products, software reviews, how to’s and troubleshooting tips. Do visit them, you will definitely like the website and its great content.

Overview of Windows 7 Ultimate

Windows 7 Ultimate is designed for people who want it all. It gives you everything Home Premium and Professional offers, plus added security features and the flexibility to work in multiple languages. Create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch TV programs for free, whenever and wherever you want.

How to enter Windows 7 Ultimate Exclusive Giveaway?

The rules are simple. Gain as much points as you can by performing any of the steps below, fill up the giveaway form and comment here.

Required Step, will earn you 200 points:

Subscribe for our email updates and don’t forget to confirm the subscription (served via Google FeedBurner)

Gain Points and Maximize your chances of Winning by performing the following steps:

Plus One us on Google. (10 points)

If you are on Facebook, Like our official Facebook page. (10 points)

Share this giveaway with your Facebook buddies and gain extra 10 points.

If you are on Twitter, Follow us and Retweet the following snippet. (20 points)

Get yourself a free #Windows 7 Ultimate License and Be Genuine : http://goo.gl/uGMih via @manekari @mytechguide

Answer this simple question and get 100 points:

Which windows 7 feature you loved the most?

Additionally, you can share about this giveaway with your buddies using the Share buttons below to gain extra 10 points for each action.

Update (22 June, 2011): You can increase your points by sharing on a daily basis, with one condition that you can share to respective services only once in 24 hours time span. For example, you can tweet about the giveaway only once in 24 hours.

The more points that you accumulate, better are your chances for winning!

Did we mention that if you are not into social networking that much, you can still take part and try your luck by simply being our email subscriber? Simply fill up the entry form below and don’t forget to answer the question.

Update (11 July 2011): We have disabled the entry form. We are not accepting any new entries. We will now validate the entries and will count the points. If you have shared about this in different channels but you have not commented about the shares in the comment section below. You can do so now. The winner will be announced after a week or so. We need at least this much time for all the validation of the huge number of entries. Best of luck to all the participants.

General Giveaway Terms and Conditions

Updated

1. No purchase necessary.

2. This contest is open worldwide.
3. Kindly use your genuine email id (used to subscribe to our email subscription) and full name for participating in this giveaway.
4. All entries must be made using the form on the giveaway page.
5. No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost, or which are not received for any technical reason.

6. The closing date for the giveaway is 10^th July, 2011.
7. If you win, we will notify you by e-mail.
8. If we do not get a response to the email within two weeks, the prize will be offered to a runner-up.
9. 
The prize is not exchangeable for cash or any other prize.

10. If, for any reason, an advertised prize is not available, we reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.

11. Incorrectly completed entries will be disqualified. An entry which doesn’t follow the terms and conditions and our comments policy will be disqualified.
12. All federal, state, local, and other taxes on items won are the sole responsibility of the applicable winner.
13. Void where prohibited by law.
14. By entering, entrants certify that they meet all eligibility requirements.
15. By entering, winners also agree to all Terms and Conditions of MyTechGuide.org.
16. My Technology Guide holds the complete rights to change the Terms and Conditions without prior notice.
17. Our decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered.

Play Fair and Be Genuine! Good Luck!

Simpo PDF to Text Converter for Mac is a simple and easy-to-use, standalone PDF to text converter for Mac users. It is able to perform the PDF conversion process without the need of Adobe Acrobat Professional. The developer of the application claims that the PDF to TXT conversion tool will accurately retain original PDF layouts and formatting even though it’s extracting plain text from PDF to text document files, thanks to its ability of automatically aligning text columns in table.

Features of Simpo PDF to Text for Mac:

• Batch conversion from PDF to Text aiming to save your precious time
• Easily convert specific (selected) PDF pages from PDF to text
• Preserve all text contents with high accuracy
• Encrypted PDF file is supported

How to get Simpo PDF to Text for Mac with free promo License

Simpo PDF to Text for Mac usually retails for $19.95. As part of Simpo Technologies ongoing promotion, interested users are now entitled to download the full version of the PDF to Text for Mac free of charge. This time-limited giveaway promotion exclusively available for Facebook users, will expire on May 31, 2011.

To grab a free license of Simpo PDF to Text for Mac, please visit Simpo Tech Facebook page and submit your email address.

Later, download Simpo PDF to Text for Mac OS X: http://www.simpopdf.com/download/pdf2text-mac.dmg

Once installed, type in your received license serial key to activate the PDF to text conversion software to full version. Simpo PDF to Text for Mac is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 or newer operating system.

Thanks to Angela of Simpo Technologies for sharing about this promotion for our readers.

Comodo Internet Security is a free, multi-layered computer security suite that keeps malware and hackers at bay while protecting your computer and private information. Comodo guarantees protection against viruses and malware by focusing on prevention not simply detection.

Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 offers real-time protection against Viruses, Trojans, Adware, Spyware and other Malware threats. Other Antivirus products depend on signature updates alone but Auto Sandbox Technology means you’re protected from even unknown threats.

Features:

Firewall: Comodo’s Firewall consistently ranks among the highest in industry tests.

Defense+ Technology: Proactive protection to automatically isolate threats from suspicious files so they can’t cause harm actually preventing infections not just detecting them. Cloud based whitelisting of trusted publisher easily identifies a safe file and vendor.

Auto Sandbox Technology: To reduce interruption to the user, unknown files can only run in a secure virtual environment where they can’t damage Windows, its registry, or important user data.

Minimal Interruptions: Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 relieves you of the responsibility of deciding whether to block or allow untrusted files – it makes the decisions for you. Game Mode suppresses operations that could interfere with a user’s gaming experience such as alerts, virus database updates or scheduled scans.

Spyware Scanning: Spyware Scanner detects and cleans malware infections in PC registry and disks.

Cloud based Antivirus: Cloud based antivirus scanning detects malicious file even if a user does not have up-to-date virus definitions.

Unlimited GeekBuddy Support: Expert support offering 24/7 live chat service to assist with everything from setup to virus removal and Windows issues at no additional charge.

Compatibility: Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP (32-bit and 64 bit versions available).

Normally, Comodo Internet Security Pro is priced at $49.99 for 1-year license. But now, Comodo is running a promotional giveaway program for all. Interested users can download a pre-activated full version of Comodo Internet Security Pro, valid for 1 year from the date of install, free of charge.

To grab 1-year FREE trial copy of the Comodo Internet Security Pro, simply click on the direct download link of the special setup installer:

cispro_1year_installer.exe (32/64 bit combined installer, 60 MB)

cispro_1year_installer_x86.exe (32-bit installer, 35 MB)

cispro_1year_installer_x64.exe (64-bit installer, 37 MB)

After downloading, install the security suite, you will find it to be valid for 365 days.